2021/8/19 #poetry If you could not operate an internet connected touchscreen mobile computer, how would you feel? Frustrated at times. You'd certainly have a tough time when you tried to use one. Free and unconcerned most of the time. You just wouldn't need to think about it. It wouldn't be inconvenient once you were used to it. You would find that it was actually less of a burden since you never had to worry about upgrade costs, data migration, disposal, software updates, losing it, breaking it, forgetting your passcode, if it's cool or not to use it in the bathroom, all that would go away entirely. You could just live your life, connecting with physical things, people, your own thoughts, and confining digital things to a desktop or make them into someone else's business. It would probably be nice to not have any responsibilities that required you to be beholden to such an object. It would filter away any false friends that wouldn't make the effort to connect with you by more conventional means. It would save energy, and your time. Life could be simpler. Your sense of reality could be more pronounced. If only you could not use an internet connected touchscreen mobile computer.